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XLConnect (version 1.1.0)

getSheetPos-methods: Querying worksheet position

Description

Queries the position of a worksheet in a workbook.

Usage

# S4 method for workbook,character
getSheetPos(object,sheet)

Value

Returns the position index of the corresponding worksheet. Note that querying a non-existing worksheet results in a 0 index and does not throw an exception!

Arguments

object

The workbook to use

sheet

The name of the worksheet (character) to query. This argument is vectorized such that multiple worksheets can be queried with one method call.

Author

Martin Studer
Mirai Solutions GmbH https://mirai-solutions.ch

See Also

workbook, setSheetPos, getSheets

Examples

Run this code
if (FALSE) {
# mtcars xlsx file from demoFiles subfolder of package XLConnect
demoExcelFile <- system.file("demoFiles/mtcars.xlsx", package = "XLConnect")

# Load workbook
wb <- loadWorkbook(demoExcelFile)

# Query worksheet positions for the worksheets 'mtcars2', 'mtcars3',
# 'mtcars' and 'NotThere' (which actually does not exist)
print(getSheetPos(wb, sheet = c("mtcars2", "mtcars3", "mtcars", "NotThere")))
}

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